Collinsville Savings Society v. Boston Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a mortgagee to recover the amount of a loss under a policy of fire insurance, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the’ plaintiff for $849.82, and appeal by the defendant. One Woodruff' was the owner of a lot of land in New Hartford with a building standing thereon.
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Action by a mortgagee to recover the amount of a loss under a policy of fire insurance, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the’ plaintiff for $849.82, and appeal by the defendant. One Woodruff' was the owner of a lot of land in New Hartford with a building standing thereon. These premises were subject to a mortgage to the plaintiff for $10,000. Woodruff caused the building to be concurrently insured in five companies for the total sum of $9,000. The defendant wrote $2,000 of this amount. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiff concedes that by the assignment from the property-owner of his claim under the policy sued upon it has not, under the facts of this case, acquired any right which it did not previously have, save the right to maintain in its own name an action against the defendant. That assignment may therefore be disregarded.
If, as the defendant contends, the plaintiff is bound by the award made under the submission entered into by the defendant and the property-owner, there is error in this case. The court' ruled against this contention, and rendered judgment in favor of the contrary claim of…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Hastings v. . Westchester Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Grosvenor v. . the Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. OlcottIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
- Hathaway v. Orient InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Franklin Savings Institution v. Central Mutual Fire InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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